Politics and Practices of Intergovernmental Evaluation

Great intellectual effort has gone into the development of sophisticated designs and methodologies to study individual policies, programs, and projects. Costly efforts to find the smallest evidence of a policy or program impact have been undertaken in the presumption that such data are central to policy decision making. Meanwhile, the intergovernmental nature of political and policy governance has been ignored. Whether it is Canada, the United States, England, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Japan, or any other industrial country, the governmental structure is essentially a web of interrelated policies, programs, and projects. To understand local responsibilities and requirements, one must also understand the role that regional and national governmental agencies and administrations play. Politics and Practice of Intergovernmental Evaluation is a landmark work in the area of the evaluation of intergovernmental policies, programs, and projects. Comparative and cross-national in its perspective, the material presented here not only provides a systematic theoretical and empirical treatment of intergovernmental evaluation, but does so with case material from seven nations and the European Union. No other such comparative work exists on this topic. Contributors include: Jan Eric Furubo; Mary Henkel; Linda G. Morra; Robert V. Segsworth and Dale H. Poel; and Willi Zimmermann and Peter Knoepfel. The Politics and Practice of Intergovernmental Evaluation will be of interest to political theorists, policymakers, and scholars and students of government and the evaluation community.

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Politics and Practices of Intergovernmental Evaluation

Great intellectual effort has gone into the development of sophisticated designs and methodologies to study individual policies, programs, and projects. Costly efforts to find the smallest evidence of a policy or program impact have been undertaken in the presumption that such data are central to policy decision making. Meanwhile, the intergovernmental nature of political and policy governance has been ignored. Whether it is Canada, the United States, England, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Japan, or any other industrial country, the governmental structure is essentially a web of interrelated policies, programs, and projects. To understand local responsibilities and requirements, one must also understand the role that regional and national governmental agencies and administrations play. Politics and Practice of Intergovernmental Evaluation is a landmark work in the area of the evaluation of intergovernmental policies, programs, and projects. Comparative and cross-national in its perspective, the material presented here not only provides a systematic theoretical and empirical treatment of intergovernmental evaluation, but does so with case material from seven nations and the European Union. No other such comparative work exists on this topic. Contributors include: Jan Eric Furubo; Mary Henkel; Linda G. Morra; Robert V. Segsworth and Dale H. Poel; and Willi Zimmermann and Peter Knoepfel. The Politics and Practice of Intergovernmental Evaluation will be of interest to political theorists, policymakers, and scholars and students of government and the evaluation community.

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Politics and Practices of Intergovernmental Evaluation

Politics and Practices of Intergovernmental Evaluation

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Great intellectual effort has gone into the development of sophisticated designs and methodologies to study individual policies, programs, and projects. Costly efforts to find the smallest evidence of a policy or program impact have been undertaken in the presumption that such data are central to policy decision making. Meanwhile, the intergovernmental nature of political and policy governance has been ignored. Whether it is Canada, the United States, England, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Japan, or any other industrial country, the governmental structure is essentially a web of interrelated policies, programs, and projects. To understand local responsibilities and requirements, one must also understand the role that regional and national governmental agencies and administrations play. Politics and Practice of Intergovernmental Evaluation is a landmark work in the area of the evaluation of intergovernmental policies, programs, and projects. Comparative and cross-national in its perspective, the material presented here not only provides a systematic theoretical and empirical treatment of intergovernmental evaluation, but does so with case material from seven nations and the European Union. No other such comparative work exists on this topic. Contributors include: Jan Eric Furubo; Mary Henkel; Linda G. Morra; Robert V. Segsworth and Dale H. Poel; and Willi Zimmermann and Peter Knoepfel. The Politics and Practice of Intergovernmental Evaluation will be of interest to political theorists, policymakers, and scholars and students of government and the evaluation community.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781351292467
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 04/17/2018
Series: Comparative Policy Evaluation
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 344
File size: 820 KB

About the Author

OLAF RIEPER has an MA in sociology (1974) and a PhD in Organisation Theory from the Copenhagen School of Economics and Social Sciences (1984), and is a senior researcher at the Danish Local Government Research Institute (AKF), Copenhagen, since 1985. JACQUES TOULEMONDE teaches economics at the "Ecole Nationale des Travaux Publics de l’Etat" in Lyon, France. He is a co-founder of the Centre for European Evaluation Expertise, where he co-ordinates a large European programme on Regional Policy evaluation

Table of Contents

Introduction: Politics and Practice of Intergovernmental Evaluation; Evaluation and Autonomy in Sweden; Evaluative Institutions in England and Wales: Weak Versions of Intergovernmental Evaluation; Evaluation in the United States: Cooperative But Not Intergovernmental; Two Cases in Intergovernmental Evaluation in Canada: “Parallel Play” and Cooperation Without Policy Consequences; Intergovernmental Evaluation of an EU-Funded Regional Development Program in Denmark; Europe and the Member States: Cooperating and Competing on Evaluation Grounds; Evaluation of the Federal Office of Environmental Protection: Across Two Levels of Government; Intergovernmental Evaluation: Patterns and Prospects
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